Bryce is the CIO of Direct Lending Investments, the general partner of the oldest and largest small business loans fund. He has a long marketplace lending history, opening a Prosper account in 2007, publishing independent credit models for various platforms and managing the portfolio of the first bank to buy P2P loans. Prior to finance, he served as Assistant Vice Chancellor at UC Riverside and as President of the California Association for Institutional Research.

Mason graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Mathematics from UCR and in 2005 earned a Doctorate in Policy Analysis from the RAND Graduate School.